superczar
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Sorry for misusing the edit feature, but didn't want this more interesting article languishing at the bottom:
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Umm, actually the article in the first post may be a bit crap-olish
but here is something that actually makes for an unusually insightful and enlightening read (esp those who belong to the cult of apple bashing - even without having used an apple product)
Here's a summary, but please do yourself a favor and read the article before flaming..it's as I said before, an unusually insightful read on a topic like this
Here is the article
15 Reasons: Read article for details first before flaming - And, oh , it'll be great if you could post an honest count of the points you agree with (after reading the article.. I absolutely loved # 13 though)
Also, from the end of the article
On a sidenote, Soggy, that cat post cracked me up
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Interesting (albeit a tiny bit biased) article on Arstechnica
It's faitly long, so here is an excerpt.. Read on here if you find it interesting
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Umm, actually the article in the first post may be a bit crap-olish
but here is something that actually makes for an unusually insightful and enlightening read (esp those who belong to the cult of apple bashing - even without having used an apple product)
Here's a summary, but please do yourself a favor and read the article before flaming..it's as I said before, an unusually insightful read on a topic like this
Here is the article
15 Reasons: Read article for details first before flaming - And, oh , it'll be great if you could post an honest count of the points you agree with (after reading the article.. I absolutely loved # 13 though)
1. Reliable sleep mode
2. Extremely fast boot times
3. Apple uses good quality parts
4. Less blinking lights
5. OS X + Windows is better than just Windows
6. Easier to troubleshoot Macs
7. A culture of good quality community software
8. More useful apps out of the box
9. Neat and contained system settings
10. Apple doesn’t load the system up with crap
11. Tonnes of small reasons make Mac OS X better
12. Still no need for additional security software
13. Apple seems largely to be lameness free
14. Power of the Linux command line with Photoshop CS4
15. File sharing is much easier
Also, from the end of the article
Before anyone tries to put words into my mouth: here's what I'm not saying:
* I'm not saying a Mac is a remotely good choice if you're a career gamer, though there are enough games and adequate performance to satisfy a casual gamer (someone who likes to play a game once a week, isn't involved in the gaming scene and wouldn't know what LOLZ actually meant.)
* I'm not saying Macs 'just work' and never have problems, because like any computer, they do.
* I'm not saying hardware compatibility is the same with Macs. There are endless hardware devices that don't have Mac drivers. It's just that there's enough good ones in every category that do have Mac support for it not to be a problem.
* I'm not saying Macs are for people who like building systems from scratch, or having maximum opportunity to chop and change parts at will.
* I'm also not saying Apple is a nice company to deal with -- it's not. Its whole corporate ethos seems to be "be smug and arrogant; turn your back and pretend everything's fine, oh and also, polished plastic never gets scratched" as often as possible. (Though frankly, the superior hardware and software goes some of the way in actually allowing them to get away with this, and mostly, the front-end customer service is very good.)
* I'm not saying that Apple is always good at admitting faults. While it is generally good with warranty if it admits a problem, if it is in denial about a problem, it will sometimes make people wait a year before they will begrudgingly accept the cost of fixing it across the board.
* And finally, I'm not saying Apple's DRM (which it refuses to share with anyone else) is anything other than a repellant policy, from a company that has a monopoly position.
On balance, though, Macs just let you get stuff done, whereas Windows computers constantly find ways of annoying you.
That's my take on it. What's yours?
On a sidenote, Soggy, that cat post cracked me up
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Interesting (albeit a tiny bit biased) article on Arstechnica
It's faitly long, so here is an excerpt.. Read on here if you find it interesting
Making the switch
A couple of Gartner analysts have recently claimed that Windows is "collapsing"; that it's too big, too sprawling, and too old to allow rapid development and significant new features. Although organizations like Gartner depend on trolling to drum up business, I think this time they could be onto something. "Collapsing" is over-dramatic—gradual decline is a more likely outcome—but the essence of what they're saying—and why they're saying it—rings true.
Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it—that's the argument. The truth is that Windows is hampered by 25-year old design decisions. These decisions mean that it's clunky to use and absolutely horrible to write applications for. The applications that people do write are almost universally terrible. They're ugly, they're inconsistent, they're disorganized; there's no finesse, no care lavished on them. Microsoft—surely the company with the greatest interest in making Windows and Windows applications exude quality—is, in fact, one of the worst perpetrators.
The unfortunate thing about this is that there is a company that's not only faced similar problems but also tackled them. Apple in the mid-1990s was faced with an operating system that was going nowhere, and needed to take radical action to avoid going out of business. And so that's what Apple did. Apple's role in the industry has always been more prominent than mere sales figures would suggest, but these days even the sales numbers are on the up. There are lessons to be learned from the company in Cupertino; I only hope they will be